Ties That Bind

2021 ◽  
pp. 58-75
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
David R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Social Standing ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Large Subset ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
The U.S

Many assume that atheists and atheist scientists rarely interact with religious individuals. Yet, a large subset of atheist scientists—29 percent in the U.S. and 21 percent in the U.K.—have sustained patterns of interaction with religious individuals and organizations, making them the most unlike the New Atheists. This group includes scientists raised within religious traditions such as Judaism, Catholicism, and Islam who now belong without believing, an orientation that often involves secular participation in religious services and practices. Others participate in services or send their children to religious schools as a way to cultivate cultural capital and social standing. Another dimension of culturally religious atheism involves partnering with or marrying someone who is religious.

Spiritual Atheist Scientists

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-93
Author(s):  
Elaine Howard Ecklund ◽  
David R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
Scientific Understanding ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Personal Wellness ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Spiritual atheists comprise the smallest subset of atheist scientists in the U.S. and U.K. Unlike modernists (who are not spiritual) and culturally religious atheists (who participate in religion), spiritual atheist scientists construct alternative value systems without affiliating with religious traditions. Many cast spirituality in emotional terms of awe and wonder provoked through scientific understanding of the world, while others frame their spirituality in terms of the dimensions of life that cannot be explained through science. Such constructions of spirituality are consequential for secular spiritual practices. For scientists, these involve scientific work itself, morality in relationships, personal wellness practices, and resources for coping with adversity.

SCHOOL CHOICE, RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roelande H. Hofman ◽  
Adriaan Hofman
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Education System ◽  
School Effectiveness ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Dutch Children ◽  
Three Factor

The article analyses the Dutch paradox of an education system that includes a large proportion of private religious schools in one of the most highly secularized of Western societies. Using a three - factor model of school choice, the authors analyze the most important motives for parental school choice and try to answer the question of why so many Dutch children from secularized families still attend private religious schools. Reasons for unconventional school choice and reflections of religious traditions within the schools are addressed as possible explanations for the Dutch paradox. The importance of school effectiveness is examined as a motive for school choice, along with factors contributing to effectiveness of public and private schools.

Under The Law: The historic Bostock opinion and LGBTQ rights in schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Robert Kim
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Lgbtq Rights ◽  
The Law ◽  
The U.S

In Bostock v. Clayton, the U.S. Supreme Court held that discrimination against employees because they are gao or transgender violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Robert Kim summarizes the case and explains what the ruling means for schools. LGBTQ educators have historically faced discrimination, but such actions are now prohibited in nearly all public, private, and charter schools. Religious schools, however, may be exempt, and the ruling does not address other issues of discrimination in schools, such restroom access.

scholarly journals Dynamics and Stability in the Encounters between Asian Buddhists and European Christians

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-43
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Berkwitz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction

The aim of this paper is to theorize broadly about how cultural encounters between Asian Buddhists and European Christians spurred various efforts to demarcate, systematize, and stabilize religious traditions. It focuses on the dynamics seen in Buddhist responses to contact situations from the sixteenth century onwards in Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Japan in order to map out some patterns of interaction among these communities. Theories of cultural imitation and independence do not suffice to theorize interreligious encounters in these cases. Using select examples, this paper will contend that Asian Buddhists often responded to various kinds of European interventions by redefining and reimagining the Buddhist tradition in new ways in order to argue for its continued validity and to secure its stability in the face of external encounters and pressures.

scholarly journals Under the Law: Gary B., Espinoza, and the fight for school funding

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-50
Author(s):  
Robert Kim
Keyword(s):  
School Funding ◽  
Federal Court ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The U.S

A pair of recent federal court decisions could have profound consequences for school funding across the country. In the first, Gary B. v. Whitmer, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of seven Detroit, Michigan, public school students who argued that their schools were so woefully underfunded as to deny them the opportunity to become fully literate, which is essential to the exercise of fundamental rights under the U.S. Constitution. In the second, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Montana could not block parents from using the state’s education tax-credit program to pay for tuition at private religious schools.

scholarly journals Barriers to the development and progress of entrepreneurship in rural Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabeel Muhammad ◽  
Gerard McElwee ◽  
Leo-Paul Dana
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Rural Pakistan ◽  
Rural Settings ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Low Levels

Purpose Focussing on entrepreneurs’ experiences inhibiting them from launching a business – at the micro level – the purpose of this paper is to identify issues that limit rural entrepreneurship in Pakistan and also, to identify the cultural, social, economic and religious traditions and settings that discourage entrepreneurship thus hindering economic development Design/methodology/approach An ethnographic approach was used to obtain a picture of current problems and perspectives of rural inhabitants. Members of 84 families were interviewed. Findings Religious, socioeconomic and structural forces play a significant role in suppressing social and cultural capital in rural areas of Pakistan, explaining the low level of entrepreneurship in these areas. Social and cultural capital requires a certain socioeconomic context for entrepreneurship to thrive. Originality/value This study examines the determinants of very low levels of entrepreneurship in rural settings in the agro-based regions of interior Sindh, Pakistan; this contributes to the gap of understanding the context of rural entrepreneurs in agro-based economies. This study makes recommendations for policy makers to promote entrepreneurship in such areas.

“Very Welcome Home Mr. Swanson”: Swedish Americans Encounter Homeland Swedes

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-121
Author(s):  
Dag Blanck
Keyword(s):  
Return Migration ◽  
Distinct Group ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Specific Population ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Swedish History ◽  
Patterns Of Interaction ◽  
The U.S

This article examines different patterns of interaction between Swedish Americans and the homeland, and my interest is in the significance and consequences of these encounters. The mass emigration of some 1,3 million Swedes in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a fundamental event in Swedish history, and as a result a separate social and cultural community—Swedish America—was created in the U.S. and a specific population group of Swedish Americans emerged. Close to a fifth of these Swedish Americans returned to Sweden, and in their interaction with the old homeland they were seen as a distinct group in Sweden and became carriers of a specific American experience. Swedish Americans thus became a visible sub-group in Sweden and it is the significance of this population that I am interested in. The article looks at both material and immaterial effects of the return migration and at the larger significance of Swedish America and Swedish Americans for Sweden.

The semiotics of undesirable bodies: Transnationalism, race culture, abjection

Semiotica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 (200) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbie B. H. Goh
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Body ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Transnational Migration ◽  
Global City ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
City State ◽  
The U.S

AbstractContemporary transnational migration has given rise to a new ideology and semiotics of the foreign body – one that draws on the cognitive field of the primitive, marked, and abjected body. This foreign body is carefully differentiated from both the sphere of the local/national, and the “expatriate” professional who by virtue of economic and cultural capital is desired and assimilated into the local sphere. An aspiring cosmopolitan and global city-state like Singapore shows this semiotic differentiation to quite a marked degree, in the policies and discourses of barely-tolerated and abjected foreign workers whose racially-marked bodies are highlighted by typologies of violence, disease, sexuality (particularly in aberrant or promiscuous form), and mob assemblies. The semiotics of the foreign body in Singapore is also evident in other racial-cultural fissures elsewhere, including in countries with multicultural reputations such as Australia, and countries like the U.S., U.K. and France that are struggling to cope with large migrant communities of Middle-Eastern and South Asian peoples.

Passing Through a Similar Transition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Azaransky
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
Howard University ◽  
Christian Theologian ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
The U.S ◽  
American Racism

Benjamin Mays was a groundbreaking religious intellectual whose theological perspective was shaped by world travel. His work and travel in the 1930s show how the international roots of the civil rights movement were fed by various intellectual streams including theological liberalism, a radical tradition of black God-talk, and the “Howard School,” the extraordinary collection of intellectuals at Howard University during this period. His exposure to India and his later work with the international ecumenical movement revealed to Mays connections between American racism and the experiences of imperialism and colonialism. A Christian theologian, he outlined a justice-oriented black social Christianity, interested in and responsive to social realities. He also demonstrated that comparative religious studies would be an essential tool for American Christians who wanted to use liberative lessons from other cultures and religious traditions in the U.S. context.

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